I like this idea and would definitely attend. Morris, a quick presentation on red-black trees has piqued my interest.
Mike On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Maria McKinley <[email protected]>wrote: > This all sounds like excellent fun. I'm still on the newbie end of python, > so not sure I can contribute much, though. > > ~maria > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Morris Bernstein < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Excellent. I've been using Python to generate animations of the various >> data structures I've been presenting to the data structures class I've been >> teaching. I did one a few months ago on the priority queue. I've got a >> spiffy-looking red-black tree too. >> >> I'd be happy to do a presentation or an extemporaneous tutorial any time >> that fits my schedule. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Chris Marusich <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I would attend a talk on data structures. Genereal concepts and >>> Python-specific examples or best practices would be great! >>> On Feb 17, 2013 6:14 PM, "Kevin LaTona" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Mark wrote: >>>> >>>>> SeaPIG is crowd-organized so if anyone wants to put on a meeting or >>>>> hands-on event, feel free to speak up. If you just need a venue, I may be >>>>> able to help. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I just looked at the web stats on Python.org and 4 items stand out >>>> pretty much every month. >>>> >>>> There is 1000's and tens of 1000's of search request at Python.org docs >>>> for tutorials, re, dicts, and list. >>>> >>>> While "tutorial" is a very broad of topic. >>>> >>>> Who here on the list would like to get together to talk more about >>>> topics like regex, or dicts or list etc.? >>>> >>>> >>>> One meeting could cover just data structure ideas in general like when >>>> using dicts and lists are plenty good enough as using a database just means >>>> your lazy. ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>> Is anyone is willing to step forward to talk about one these ideas? >>>> >>>> Or what about doing a round table / hacknight / pair programming x ** / >>>> open style discussion on these kind of topics? >>>> >>>> >>>> Come folks we all fall into a ruts. >>>> >>>> Possibly talking with other local python geeks at a SeaPig meeting >>>> might break some old habits or you may learn some new tricks that night. >>>> >>>> >>>> I know we are not "Rock star, Ninja, bad ass" Python geeks that the HR >>>> departments write about in their want ads. ( when will these corny >>>> descriptions die out ) >>>> >>>> But hey after of few of these type of SeaPig meetings ....... who knows. >>>> >>>> >>>> Post your thoughts to the list or email me direct and let's see if any >>>> thing can develop around one of these ideas. >>>> >>>> -Kevin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Morris Bernstein >> President & Founder >> SYSTEMS *Deployment* LLC >> 408-368-3247 >> [email protected] >> http://www.systems-deployment.com >> >> > > > -- > Maria Mckinley > Programmer and System Administrator >
